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Talk to the Hand by Nicole Dryburgh (view source)

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We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book [[The Way I See It by Nicole Dryburgh|The Way I See It]], which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book.
Since When TWISI ended, Nicole's cancer had left her blind and with reduced mobility. Since then, she's had more health problems: doctors failed to quickly diagnose tumours in her ears, and she's now almost completely deaf; she had to have surgery for an enormous bladder stone; her needle phobia grew to intolerable proportions. You do kinda wonder just how much one person is expected to take. But none of this daunts Nicole, and ''Talk to the Hand'' is another vivid, honest and energetic book about what happened to her, what she's done about it and what she's done for other people, what she likes (pink things, chocolate, her dogs) and what she doesn't (inattentive doctors, needles, running out of Nice n Spicy Nik Naks).
Much of the book is about illness, of course, and much of the rest is about fundraising for medical charities. But the book isn't actually focused on these things at all - it's a young girl's chatty diary, a blog in print. It's a gossip, a natter, some shared advice - the kind of thing girls do up and down the country, whether they're ill or not. It's aimed at Nicole's peer group, but it's accessible and easy to read, so girls at late primary age would enjoy it, but it's also so open and enjoyable that their mothers will love it too.
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